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M. TURLEY & R. T. BRYANT.

PLOW.

No. 365,156. Patented June 21, 1887 WITNESSES Wm IWTOR J 50, M fiflryq Wrne UNITED STATES Y MARSHALL TURLEY AND REUBEN T.

PATENT OFFICE.

BRYANT, OF COUNCIL BLUFFS, IOlVA.

PLOW.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 365,156, dated June 21,1887.

Application filed November 19, 1886. Serial No. 210,406.

To aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, llTARSHALL TURLEY and REUBEN T. BRYANT, of CouncilBluffs, in the county of Pottawattamie and State of Iowa, have inventedcertain new and useful Improvements in Flows; and we do hereby declarethe following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it ap:

IO pertains to make and use the same.

Our invention relates to an lll'lPlOVQll'lQlll] in plows for listingcorn.

It is customary, especially among the farmers of the west, to list theirground and drill their corn. Heretofore the trouble has been that duringheavy rains the water accumulated in the furrows and rotted or washedout the seed-corn.

The object of our present invention is to provide a bed of loose earthfor receiving the corn to be planted, and also to provide means wherebythe water during heavy rains is led off from the corn.

A further object is to provide a device which will be simple, durable,and inexpensive.

\Vith these ends in view our invention con sists in certain features ofconstruction and combinations of parts, as will be hereinafterdescribed, and pointed out in the claim.

In the accompanying drawing is represented a viewin perspective of ourimproved device.

A represents a plow-beam having near its rear end two 1 low sta1nlards,a, secured on the opposite faces of said beam, and having curvedplowshares B attached thereto, whereby the earth is given a rollingmotion and is thrown to the right and left. The beam A is furtherprovided with a shovel-plow, C, attached to the rear end of the beam,whereby the ridge left unplowed between the two plows is adapted to forma bed for the seed-corn to be planted in. The action is very simple, as

the shovel passing through the ridge left unplowed makes a furrow, andas the plow moves a small quantity of the loose earth falls back in saidfurrow, thus making a loose and soft (No model.)

bed for the corn. The beam is further provided with a rolling colter,secured to the beam in any well-known manner, and is adapted to make apath, as well as cut the weeds, for the shovel-plow to pass in. Duringheavy rains the water accumulating in the corn-furrow is led off byreason of the easy penetration of the water through the loose dirtconstituting the corn-furrow into one of the broad furrows on each sideof said eorn furrow, and there stands or soaks into the ground.

A pair of handles, D, are secured to the beam in any well-known mannerand adapted to act as means for guiding the plow.

A clevis, (l, is attached to the fore part of the beam as means forhitching the team.

It is evident that slight changes might be resorted to in the form andarrangement of the several parts described without departing from thespirit and scope of our invention; hence we do not wish to limitourselves strictly to the exact construction herein set forth, butconsider ourselves at liberty to make such changes that fall within thespirit and scope of our invention.

Having fully described our invention, what we claim as new, and desireto secure by Letters Patent, is

In a plow for listing corn, the combination, with a beam, of two plowsattached to the opposite faces of said beam and a shovel-plow attachmentsecured to the rear end of the beam and adapted to pulverizc the ridgeleft unplowed by the two plows, and a rolling colter attached to thefore part of the beam and adapted to form a path for the shovelplow tofollow in, substantially as set forth.

In testimony whereof we have signed this specification in the presenceof two subscrib ing witnesses.

MARSHALL TURLEY. REUBEN T. BRYANT.

\V itnesses:

A. S. HAZELTON,

H. JAMES.

